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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Riding through the years.
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 15:06:12 -0600
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On 1/5/2025 2:47 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:
> AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> On 1/4/2025 6:12 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
>>> I ride almost 4 times a week and until recently with a fair sized group.
>>> Now there are about 6 of us that ride together on and off. But a lot of my
>>> riding now is solo. This largely because the group is aging and losing the
>>> ability to do the rides that I still do. Saturday rides are easy rides but
>>> on the way out to the coffee stop, they ride harder than I care to, and
>>> then on the return trips they are riding a lot slower having burned
>>> themselve out.
>>>
>>> Perhaps one of them is capable of doing my North Palomares route but if he
>>> did he would drop me like a stone since he is 20 years younger than me.
>>> And he would freeze to death at the top waiting for me. So the group id
>>> sging out from under me. Or too young snd too fast to ride at my speed.
>>
>> Four degrees at dawn today. I skipped; too damned cold.
>>
> 
> I was next to Cutty Sark this morning post a family wedding, quite a bit
> warmer assuming you’re using Fahrenheit though wet. Been snow west and
> north on higher lands though not massively so.
> 
> London has a handful of snow plows etc in fact has more of the wee sweepers
> that they use for segregated bike lanes and similar places than full sized
> ones as well it’s very rare that London snows and settles.
> 
> Even back in wales it’s much less common than it used to be, plus drivers
> particularly the commercial ones were much more used to snow.
> 
> Remember a new boy at school waiting for the bus expecting to have snow
> day, being disappointed when the school bus that came without issue, as
> well the school buses came from a local firm up on the hill/gorge side so
> snow wasn’t going to bother them, quite used to driving in it.
> 
> Roger Merriman

My days of waking up with one are long gone:

https://www.platinaliquor.com/uploads/products/3400.jpg?v=B2

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971